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Fight Talk
by General Cable Corporation
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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New York: General Cable Corporation, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A survey of the propaganda and motivational posters designed and published by the General Cable Corporation during the Second World War. The posters are documented with 33 high quality full-page reproductions printed with spot colors (rather than four-color CMYK separations). On the page facing each poster is… Read more about this item Item Price
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![U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953 [Five Volumes, Complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/848/729/1579729848.0.m.1.jpg)
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953 [Five Volumes, Complete]
by Montross, Lynn; Nicholas A. Canzona; et al.
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- 1992
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Austin: R. J. Speights, 1992. Hardcover. Near fine. A five volume history of the Korean War, originally published between 1954 and 1972. 1) The Pusan Perimeter; 2) The Inchon-Seoul Operation; 3) The Chosin Reservoir Campaign; 4) The East-Central Front; 5) Operations in West Korea. A nice set of this quality reprint, bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping.… Read more about this item Item Price
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![México Militar: Revista Cientifico-Literaria [Vols. I and II]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/137/401/1521401137.0.m.jpg)
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México Militar: Revista Cientifico-Literaria [Vols. I and II]
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- 1902
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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México [Mexico City]: México Militar, 1902. First Edition. Two bound volumes of the first two years of this scarce Mexican military periodical. According to the masthead, the magazine was published with the approval (aprobación) of the Mexican Secretary of the Army and Navy. According to the introduction, the goal of Mexico Militar was to promote the modernization of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Catálogo general de la biblioteca del Capitán 1° de Ings. Julián Pacheco 1898
by Pacheco, Julián
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- 1898
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[Mexico], 1898. A manuscript catalog of a career Mexican military officer's library, totalling more than about 650 works in 600 volumes, numbered and organized by subject. The list includes the title, author, and in some cases observations on each book, along with their series and identification numbers. Not surprisingly, the largest section of the library was devoted to books… Read more about this item Item Price
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Conflicto Europea. Guerra Franco--Prusiana: El chassepot y el fusil de aguja..
by Bible, G. W.; translated by Rafael Benavides
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- 1871
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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A$738.82
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Mexico: Tipografia de J. Rivera, Hijo y Compañía, 1871. First Edition. Very good. A Spanish translation of Great European Conflict. Franco-Prussian War: Chassepot - Rifle vs. Zundnadelgewehr, or the Needle Gun: Real Cause of the Struggle by a Mexican army general.
208 pages plus four inserted lithographic portraits of the leaders of the conflict (including Napoleon… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Historia de la última guerra entre la Inglaterra, los Estados Unidos de América, la Francia, España, y Holanda: desde el ano de 1775, en que se principio hasta el de 1783, en quo se concluyo [Two volumes bound in one]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/116/401/1521401116.0.m.jpg)
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Historia de la última guerra entre la Inglaterra, los Estados Unidos de América, la Francia, España, y Holanda: desde el ano de 1775, en que se principio hasta el de 1783, en quo se concluyo [Two volumes bound in one]
by [Leboucher, Odet-Julien]
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- First Edition
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- 1793
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- Leather bound
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Alcalá [Spain]: Imprenta de la Universidad, 1793. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good. A Spanish translation of the "best French chronicle of the Revolution [which is] particularly valuable on naval affairs"-Howes US-iana, L169 (also listing this edition). This edition does not have any maps, but consistent with its focus on naval action, it does include a large fold-out… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[Mexican Military in the 19th Century: Two Bound Volumes of Scarce Pamphlets]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/113/401/1521401113.0.m.jpg)
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[Mexican Military in the 19th Century: Two Bound Volumes of Scarce Pamphlets]
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Very good. Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm.
Volume 1:
1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado. A translation by A. German… Read more about this item Item Price
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Will Japan Fight with America? Nichibei issen ron: Ichimei mushiki no kyofu
by Kawashima, Seijiro
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- First Edition
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- 1925
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- Trade paperback
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Tokyo: Keibunkan, 1925. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also considers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Knives of the United States Military in Vietnam
by Silvey, Michael W.
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1997
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- Hardcover
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- 9780965554404
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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A$277.06
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Sacramento, CA: Michael W. Silvey, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Covers SOG, Randall, Gerber, John Ek, and other knives.
139 pages. Full color. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item Price
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My Ditty Box
by Graham, James; 6th Duke of Montrose
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- Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1952
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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A$184.70
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The memoirs of a very active naval officer, engineer, and politician. During his eventful life, the Duke of Montrose was the first person to film a solar eclipse and he invented the aircraft carrier. Like many people who live enventful lives he devotes as much space the events… Read more about this item Item Price
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The M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventive Maintenance
by Eisner, Will
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- Later printing
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- 1969
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- Pamphlet
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Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Later printing. Pamphlet. Near fine. The legendary guide to M16 rifle maintenance published during the Vietnam War and designed and illustrated by cartoonist Will Eisner as part of his work on the Army's Preventive Maintenance Monthly comics magazine.
32 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. DA Pam 750-30, 1 July 1969.… Read more about this item Item Price
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You Help Someone You Know ... When You Give to the USO
by Scott, Howard
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- 1944
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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A$369.41
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(N.-pl.): [United Service Organizations?], 1944. Ephemera. Very good. A homefront poster promoting donations to the United Service Organizations, a group that funded and produced entertainment for American soldiers during the Second World War. While movie stars and hot musical acts performed at some USO events, this poster shows a more modest offering-a soldier with a rifle and helmet… Read more about this item Item Price
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![[Women Assembling Bombs] [Photograph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/772/209/1429209772.0.m.jpg)
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[Women Assembling Bombs] [Photograph]
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- 1920
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- Ephemera
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1920. Ephemera. Very good. A gelatin silver print image of women working in a munitions factory assembling aerial bombs. A man, possibly the supervisor, stands on the opposite side of the table. A 48-star American flag hangs above them.
Your cataloguer has no expertise in identifying bombs, but these seem somewhat more advanced than those used… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Biology of War
by Nicolai, G. F.
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- 1918
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- Hardcover
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A$230.88
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New York: The Century Co, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Written while the author was in prison, "The Biology of Waropens with a scathing refutation of [the Manifesto of Ninety-Three German Intellectuals], dealing at length with Germany's responsibility for the war, and then proceeds to discuss and analyse every aspect of the war itself, regarded as a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Le Général Mangin
by Mangin, Louis-Eugène
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- Second Edition
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- 1990
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- Trade paperback
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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A$157.00
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[Paris?]: (the author), 1990. Second Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. A second, expanded edition, of this biography of a French First World War general. The first edition was published in Paris by F. Lanore in 1986.
437 pages. Text in French. 8-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. A very good copy in tape-bound wrappers (paper covers), as issued. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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Improving Race Relations in the Army: Handbook for Leaders
by Nordlie, Peter G.; Bruce C. Allnutt; C. Gail Rasmussen; and Guy R. Marbury
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- First Edition
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- 1972
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- Trade paperback
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McLean, VA: Human Sciences Research, 1972. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. A guide to help officers combat racial discrimination in the army in the waning years of the Viet Nam war. The authors report that the army had few Black officers, that Black soldiers had a hard time obtaining technical positions, and that Black soldiers were twice… Read more about this item Item Price
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Defenceless Condition of the Southern Coast of the United States and Gulf of Mexico
by Mercer, C. F. (Charles Fenton)
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- First Edition
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- 1842
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- Ephemera
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[Washington, DC]: (n.p.), 1842. First Edition. Ephemera. Very good. An appeal to the federal government to attend to the military defense of Florida. The author, Charles Fenton Mercer, was a former member of Congress who left his post for financial reasons and took a job at a bank in Florida, where he was working when he wrote this… Read more about this item Item Price
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Resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of additional relief to the sufferers from the Sioux Indian War of 1862
by Sherwood, Charles D. and Thomas H. Armstrong
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- First Edition
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- 1865
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- Ephemera
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[Washington, DC]: (n.p.), 1865. First Edition. Ephemera. Fine. A request from the Minnesota legislature to appoint a new commission to award damages to those in the state affected by the war with the Sioux. The legislature states that soldiers fighting in the civil war and refugees currently living in other states were unable to apply for compensation under… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reservation at Fort Steilacoom. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting certain plots of the military reservation at Fort Steilacoom for the Committee on Territories
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- 1872
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- Ephemera
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[Washington, DC]: (n.p.), 1872. First Edition. Ephemera. Very good. A short reprinting of documents related to the decommissioning of Fort Steilacoom, in Washington Territory.
3 pages (a single sheet, folded to make 4 pages, the final one blank). 42d Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 202. First edition (first printing). Light discoloration to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Appropriations for Fortifications, Repairing Old Works, &c. [To Accompany bill H. R. No. 352]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/512/028/1377028512.0.m.jpg)
Appropriations for Fortifications, Repairing Old Works, &c. [To Accompany bill H. R. No. 352]
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- 1842
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- Pamphlet
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[Washington, DC]: (n.p.), 1842. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near fine. A collection of brief reports from federal officials about plans and progess in preparing military defenses for Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; Sandy Hook; Staten Island; and other coastal positions.
A single sheet folded to make 8 pages. 27th Congress, 2nd Session. House of Representatives, Document No. 188. First… Read more about this item Item Price
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